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Multi-periodSite Name: Pineland
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 4.153 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Fort Myers  Nearest Village: Pineland
Latitude: 26.660400N  Longitude: 82.1504W
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Pineland submitted by bat400_photo : Courtesy South Florida Archaeology and the Florida Museum of Natural History. Copyright 2020. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/sflarch/collections/pineland/ (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village in Lee County, Florida.
Pineland was the location of a major village of the Calusa people, a stratified society that recieved tribute from other groups in south central Florida. The site shows occupation for over 1500 years and includes the structures built from the 1200's through 1700's when the remnants of the Calusa migrated to the Florida Keys and Cuba.

The site is part of the Randell Research Center
and includes burial and structural shell mounds and a canal dug to bring water into the village center. A National Register of Historic Places site.

Note: Dig at Pineland Mound Complex May Reveal Clues to How the Calusa Culture Became Dominant in Pre-Contact Florida. See comments.
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Pineland
Pineland submitted by bat400_photo : Depiction of prehistoric Calusa Leaders. Courtesy Florida Natural History Museum, copyrighted 2020. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/south-florida/ (Vote or comment on this photo)

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1000 year old Calusa artifacts by bat400 on Monday, 30 March 2020
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From the Archaeological Institute of America's "World Roundup". No other information at this time:
"Rare 1,000-year-old Calusa Indian artifacts, including pieces of wood, rope, and fishing net, were retrieved from a waterlogged midden located along the ancient shoreline in Pineland. The fishing net, likely fashioned from cabbage palm fiber, has some of its knots still attached. This allowed researchers to determine that its grid is around an inch wide. The deposit also contained clamshell weights and unburned seeds from a gourd-like squash, possibly all that remains of the attached gourds that once enabled the net to float. —Jason Urbanus"

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Calusa mound to reveal secrets by bat400 on Thursday, 12 November 2009
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Submitted by coldrum ---
In the cool, buggy shade of a huge royal poinciana, archaeologist Michael Wylde dragged his trowel 1,200 years into the past.

Wylde, manager of the Randell Research Center at Pineland, was renewing an excavation begun last winter of a Calusa Indian site known as Mound 5 of Brown’s Mound Complex. “The first day you open a dig is like Christmas,” Wylde said. “It’s like, whew, here we go. What am I going to get?”

Excavation will begin in earnest Saturday, and Wylde hopes to have the work done by spring 2010.

Although part of Brown’s Mound Complex is within the 8.59-acre Pineland Site Complex, a major archaeological site owned by Lee County and managed by the University of Florida Foundation, Mound 5 is on property owned by crime fiction and fishing adventure author Randy Wayne White.

“I’m fascinated by the history of this area,” White said, explaining why he’s allowing the excavation. “A lot of the Indian mounds around here are not protected. I watched at least half a mound near my house torn up by a backhoe and hauled away.

“So, I think it’s very important to find out what we can while we can, before someone comes along after I’m gone and decides to destroy the mound.”

“Brown’s Mound Complex is a site we know about extensively but not intensively,” said Bill Marquardt, curator in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. “In other words, we sort of know where everything is on the site, but we don’t know what all of the parts of the site have to tell us. We’ve never had the chance to know the function of Mound 5, whether it was a garbage pile or a special-purpose mound or something else. This is a good opportunity to find out.”

Work at Mound 5 might produce clues as to how and when the dominant Calusa people became so powerful.

Source: the Fort Myers News-Press.
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12 Jan 2008 activities at Calusa Heritage Trail, Florida by bat400 on Thursday, 10 January 2008
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Learn about the culture and history of the Calusa Indians at the Calusa Heritage Trail and experience the artistic spirit of Pine Island during the “Art, Authors and Archaeology, Florida’s Creative Coast Weekend” Jan. 11-12. The Florida Museum’s Randell Center site will host a portion of the weekend events.

Jan. 12, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Calusa Indian Heritage Trial visitors of all ages can enjoy guided walking, boat and ghost tours, screening of archaeological artifacts and learn to make cast nets, fans, braided rope and clay pots the way the Calusa did thousands of years ago. Guests also have the opportunity to learn about the unique technique of paper casting while children can paint their own Calusa masks, learn to toss the atlatl, make small pinch pots and participate in educational archaeological activities, for example carbon-14 dating with chocolate chip cookies and M&Ms.

Beginning at 5 p.m. on Jan. 12, visitors can enjoy a bonfire and flute music by eight-time Emmy Award-winning composer and flutist Kat Epple, accompanied by the drums of Nathan Dyke. Visitors are encouraged to bring chairs and blankets and enjoy a peaceful evening under the stars on Pine Island. Food and beverages will be sold all day.

For a complete list of activities, visit http://www.floridascreativecoast.com or contact Lisa Benton, (239) 283-4842, or info@pineislandchamber.org.
From the University of Florida, Inside UF.
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Lee County, Florida, was the epicenter of the Calusa nation by bat400 on Thursday, 30 August 2007
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Another description of the remains of this Florida Chiefdom culture and a description of the public outreach conducted by the Randall Research Center.

The Smith burial mound along the Calusa Heritage Trail is clearly marked by a sign along the path. Yet, skulls and bones are nowhere to be seen. Florida laws protect ancient human remains and at Smith Mound, they remain hidden behind a fence and vegetation. My guide, Kara Sweeney, regional director of the Florida Public Archaeology Network, tells me we just passed what may have once been a moat that surrounded the 1,100-year-old burial site.

A 3,700-foot walkway makes up the Calusa Heritage Trail in Pineland, in northern Pine Island. It is run by the Randell Research Center, whose new waterfront office is now located in Matlacha. The Research Center, a program of the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, opened in 1994 after the Randell family donated more than 50 acres to the school. It operates to maintain the Pineland site and teach the community about local history and archaeology.

Sweeney says she hopes people don't get the wrong impression from the title "research center." While it may imply the site is private or strictly for scientists, she says, all people are welcome to visit and even volunteer there. She lectures at local schools and hosts field trips at the Pineland site.

It's hot and sticky but the mosquitoes and fire ants are largely absent today. There is even a slight breeze. The ground we are standing on has been inhabited for about 2,000 years. The site was excavated in the 1890s and again in the 1980s. Over time, archaeologists concluded the site was a major center for the Calusa Native Americans.

Mound Key, located in Estero Bay, is thought to have been the capital of the Calusa, once the most powerful people in South Florida. "Mound Key would be like Washington D.C. and this would be New York," Sweeney said.

According to David Southall, curator of education at the Collier County Museum, the Calusa, at their height, controlled 11 cities with populations of a thousand each. Their extensive trading network stretched across Florida, where several other tribes paid tribute to the Calusa.

They had a standing army ready to dispatch when needed and were even able to hold off the Spanish, who Southall said were never able to defeat the Calusa. But by the 1700s, the Calusa had succumbed to disease and forced slavery imposed by other tribes with firearms.

Walking on the trail's boardwalks, we run into a papaya tree, which was an important food source for the Calusa. Unlike many other Native American cultures, the Calusa were not an agricultural society. Using palmetto-fishing nets weighed down with cockle or scallop shells, the Calusa relied on fishing and some hunting to survive.

For more, see the Fort Meyers Florida Weekly.
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Calusa Heritage by bat400 on Monday, 07 May 2007
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The Calusa Heritage Trail through the Pineland Complex is described in an article by Betsy Perdichizzi.

Calusa Heritage Trail outdoor museum

It is the place to go if you want to walk in the footsteps of the ancient Calusa. The Pineland site complex is located in coastal Lee County northwest of Fort Myers. The site was a Calusa Indian village for more than 1,500 years. Enormous shell mounds still overlook the waters of Pine Island Sound. The remains of 15 centuries of Indian life are evident everywhere. Remnants of an ancient canal that reached across Pine Island sweep through the complex. Sand burial mounds stand in the woods.

The short trail takes you to see Indian mounds rising 30-40 feet into the air and a segment of the awesome Calusa Canal. From the top of the tallest mound, you can look across the green waters of the estuary to the barrier islands of Boca Grande, North Captiva and Captiva Island.
The longer trail leads you to hallowed ground, an impressive burial rising higher than you think possible for people without modern technology and earth moving equipment.
I visited with my friends Hilda and Helmut Nickel for the opening of the teaching pavilion. We were awed by the power and majesty of the village site, mounds and canal.

Signs along the improved trail provide visitors with detailed information regarding the Calusa Indians, their culture and environment, and the history of Southwest Florida after the Calusa left.

For more see this link at the San Marcos Sun Times.
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